Song of the Prune-Frank Crumit/Celeste Holm

[ti:Song of the Prune] [ar:Frank Crumit] [al:The Golden Age of Comedy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song of the Prune - Frank Crumit/Celeste Holm [00:21.18]La la la la [00:22.96] [00:23.60]La la la la [00:24.80] [00:26.16]Nowadays we often gaze [00:28.33]On women over fifty [00:31.08]Without the slightest trace [00:33.20]Of wrinkles on their face [00:36.15]Doctor's go and take their dough [00:38.26]To make them young and nifty [00:40.79]But Doctor's I defy [00:42.07] [00:43.15]To tell me just why [00:45.69]No matter how young a prune may be [00:48.24]It's always full of wrinkles [00:50.79]We may get them on our face [00:53.34]Prunes get them every place [00:55.84]Prohibition worries us [00:58.02]But prunes don't sit and brood [01:00.55]For no matter how young a prune may be [01:03.16]It's always getting stewed [01:05.30] [01:10.94]In the kingdom of the fruits [01:13.40]The prune is snubbed by others [01:15.44] [01:15.96]And they are not allowed [01:17.85] [01:18.47]To mingle with the crowd [01:20.41] [01:20.99]Though they're never on display [01:23.43]With all their highbrow brothers [01:26.01]They never seem to mind [01:28.10]To this fact they're resigned [01:30.83]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:33.48]It's always full of wrinkles [01:36.23]Beauty treatments always fail [01:38.61]They've tried all to no avail [01:41.12]Other fruits are envious [01:43.13] [01:43.71]Because they know real well [01:46.04]That no matter how young a prune may be [01:48.66]Hot water makes them swell [01:51.06] [01:56.53]Baby prunes look like their dad [01:58.80]But not wrinkled quite as bad [02:01.26] [02:11.47]Every day in every way [02:13.69]The world is getting better [02:16.39]We've even learned to fly [02:18.63]As days go passing by [02:21.08]But how about the poor old prune [02:23.82]His life is only wetter [02:26.24]No wonder he can't win [02:28.10]In the awful stew he's in [02:31.11]No matter how young a prune may be [02:33.91]He's always full of wrinkles [02:36.48]We may get them on our face [02:39.01]Prunes get them every place [02:41.49]Nothing ever worries them [02:43.66]Their life's an open book [02:45.80] [02:46.35]But no matter how young a prune may be [02:49.19]It has a worried look [02:50.89] [03:02.03]Prunes act very kind they say [03:04.29]When sickly people moan [03:06.72]But no matter how young a prune may be [03:09.45]It has a heart of stone